Just a note of caution: Neighborhoods DO have the right to allocate their NRP $ for operational costs pretty much as they wish. However, funding operations, especially of otherwise mandated municipal services, out of NRP $$$ is probably not a particularly good idea. It may give some short term relief to a particular problem, but it just postpones the more basic debate of how to "redesign" community services to meet the needs of residents within the fiscal constraints of city revenues. NRP $$$ are not a sustainable source of funding for operations, of libraries or of other services. That it is "legal" doesn't necessarily mean it is wise. Ann Berget Kingfield 10-10
